Australia and Japan have signed contracts for the first three of a $6.5 billion fleet of Japanese-designed warships.

New South Wales, Australia’s second-biggest coal-producing state, will ban new mine applications for the fossil fuel and impose rules to reduce methane emissions from existing projects. The state ...

(Sydney) – The Australian government should strengthen gender-focused approaches across all crisis responses, Human Rights Watch said today following International Women’s Day. The authorities should ...

The New Scientist Book Club moved from reading about the emancipation of a sex robot in January, with Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot, to a scorching vision of Australia many generations from now in February ...

There’s a reason political commentators refer to Australia’s “climate wars”. Every time a climate policy is put on the table, supporters and opponents come out in force and duke it out. This was not a ...

People dig out their cars parked along Lancaster St. during a winter storm on Jan. 26, 2026 in Albany, N.Y. Reporter Extreme weather events are battering both ends of the world this week. In the U.S., ...

This year, thousands of Tuvaluans applied for Australia’s climate-migration visas to escape the impacts of rising sea levels. Reading time 2 minutes Tuvalu could become the first country to disappear ...

Nov 30 (Reuters) - One of Australia's biggest coal export ports will resume operations on Monday, the port operator said, after climate-change protesters disrupted shipping at the Port of Newcastle ...

At the last possible minute, Australia backed away from its bid to host COP31, the United Nations climate summit next year, in Adelaide alongside Pacific nations. Under a compromise struck with rival ...

SYDNEY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Turkey will host next year's UN climate summit while Australia will lead the conference's negotiations among governments, under a compromise deal taking shape in talks in ...

WASHINGTON — Even Australia’s most protected marine habitats are likely to suffer extreme impacts from climate change by 2040. According to a new study, even under today’s optimistic climate scenarios ...